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-> www.heritagemedals.com.au • Family Law Disputes • Children's Matters • Married/De Facto Property • Divorce • Child Support/Maintenance • DFRDB/MSBS Superannuation MILITARY COUNSEL AVAILABLE CANBERRA Ph. 02 6247 6147 www.evansyeend.com enquiries@evansyeend.com AVIATION STUDIES At UNSW Aviation: Graduate Programs in Aviation Management Postgraduate courses offered by distance mode Entry to those with appropriate professional experience and/or degree Bachelor of Aviation A three year degree with Flying & Management options UNSW Aviation Tel: (02) 9385-6767 Fax: (02) 9385-6637 Web: www.aviation.unsw.edu.au aviation faculty of science 34 SPORT Army September 4, 2008 HIGH drama was the name of the game when the School of Military Engineering snatched a last-gasp 28-24 rugby league win against the team from the Regimental Basic Officers' Course on August 6, In the match at the SME foot- ball ground at Steele Barracks in Moorebank, ROBC led 24-22 in the dying minutes and looked cer- tain to score after a big line break. But the touch judge ruled the pass forward and from the sub- sequent restart it was SME's turn to attack. On the fifth tackle Cfn Matthew McGregor found his way through the defence for the match- winning try. "The game has been played in some format for as long as anyone here can remember," Capt Paul Mostafa said after the game. "Originally it was rugby union but it has been played as rugby league over the past two years as it is more accessible without special- ist training." He said no trophy was on the line in this annual event, just brag- ging rights. Last year ROBC won. "It provides the opportunity for staff and trainees to engage in some friendly physical competi- tion after a very demanding six month course," Capt Mostafa said. The game was played in three 20-minute thirds. The first stanza was fairly even with ROBC having a 6-4 lead at the break. ROBC dominated the second third, scoring a number of tries out wide through the big Tongan 2Lt Hola Iketau. Lt Tommy Gains also scored a try from a kick-off after busting through the tackles of most of the SME forward pack. Lt Joshua Myers was denied a certain try by Capt Mostafa after an attempted grubber. ROBC retained a 20-12 advan- tage at the end of the second third but the experience of the SME showed through in the final third. Cpl Jordan Sargent and Sgt Ben King combined well in the halves, supported by some strong running from the SME inside-centre Cpl Stephen Wilson. Eyes on the ball: SME's Cpl Stephen Wilson spreads the ball wide as ROBC's Lt Hola Iketau tries to shut it down. Photo by Bill Cunneen MATCHES between the representative mili- tary rugby league teams of the world are likely to become more regular and formal after this year's running of the Defence World Cup. The Defence World Cup or DWC08 is being run in conjunction with the staging of the Rugby League World Cup in Australia to celebrate the centenary of the code. Combined Australian Services Rugby League's WO1 Grahame Cavanough says military teams from the code's three major nations, Australia, Britain and New Zealand have been playing each other on and off as far back as World War I. More recent encounters have taken place since the 1997 advent of the CASRL. "The Defence World Cup will now be on the cal- endar for further World Cups to have ours run in conjunction with theirs," WO1 Cavanough said. DWC08 has attracted teams from Australia, New Zealand and the Cook Islands in pool A, and England, Papua New Guinea and Russia in pool B. Many of the DWC08 matches will be played as curtain-raisers to the higher-profile Rugby League World Cup. A registration and media launch for DWC08 will be held at Victoria Barracks in Sydney on November 3 at 2pm. PNG and Russia will kick off DWC08 at Penrith's CUA Stadium at 11am on November 5, with Australia to play the Cook Islands at 3pm the same day at Parramatta Stadium as World Cup curtain-raisers. England and Russia meet at Newcastle's Energy Australia Stadium on November 8 at 5.30pm, and on November 9 at 3pm Australia meets New Zealand at CUA Stadium. Preliminary matches will be completed on November 11 at 2pm and 4pm when England plays PNG and New Zealand opposes Cook Islands at CUA Stadium. The draw for the final stages at CUA Stadium is: November 13, minor semi-final, 3rd Pool A v 3rd Pool B; major-semi-finals, 4pm, 1st pool Bv2ndPoolA;6pm,1stPoolAv2ndPoolB; November 15, 2pm, play off - 5th v 6th; 4pm, play off-3rdv4th. The DWC08 final will be played at Sydney Football Stadium at 4.15pm as a World Cup cur- tain-raiser. Before all the excitement of DWC08, the CASRL annual inter-service carnival will be held in Canberra from October 17-21 to decide the cham- pion service for 2008 and also to select the repre- sentative team for DWC08. Navy and Air Force will open the CASRL carni- val on October 17, followed by Army and Air Force on October 19 and Navy and Army on October 21. The carnival is being held at RMC Duntroon and HMAS Harman. A squad of 18 players will be selected and travel to Townsville and play a curtain-raiser to the World Cup match between England and PNG. CASRL will play the PNG Defence Force. Remaining players will remain in Canberra and form two teams for a match between the CDF's and VCDF's 13s at Canberra Stadium on October 26 as a curtain-raiser to the World Cup game between France and Scotland. That game will be used as a selection trial to choose a further eight players who will travel to Sydney to join the squad returning from Townsville. The CASRL squad will then go into camp at Holsworthy Barracks and prepare for the DWC08. Engineering a win World Cup fever hits Services